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Haldun

2 years

I was using @wooorldXR at the cabin we're staying at. Went upstairs to pickup something while still wearing the Quest Pro and was surprised to see how well it still tracked from there. New use cases unlocked.

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Haldun

@haltor

3 years

Hey folks, here's what we've been working on quietly for a while. Realworld lets you explore the world in VR. Here it is running on Oculus Quest. Sign up for updates & beta testing: . Follow me and @realworldXR and help us spread the word with likes & RTs!

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@haltor

6 months

I may have invented a more comfortable Apple Vision Pro strap with just a baseball cap and a high tech rubber band. It's not touching my face at all. Higher fov, better weight distribution, open periphery and eye tracking still works. It's super comfy. The cap's brim is carrying

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@haltor

4 years

"I'm not feeling so good, Mr. Zuckerberg"

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@haltor

3 years

Here's a quick video of Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ) with @Oculus Passthrough recorded on an Oculus Quest. We will have a lot more to share soon. More info at Follow me and @wooorldXR and help us spread the word with likes & RTs! 🙏

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@haltor

5 years

Oculus Quest hand tracking with @tarukosu 's #MRTK extension is so good. Here is a clip of some quick tests we have done with a few additional interactions of our own. @MxdRealityDev @cubicVR @Oculus #OculusQuest #Unity #VR #XR

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@haltor

1 year

This is the form factor I want from a stand-alone mixed reality device.

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@haltor

5 months

Interesting to hear Sergey Brin talk about Google Glass, Apple Vision Pro and the “Oculuses”. - Says “I feel like I messed up Google Glass”. Crowd goes “aww”. Adds that he would have done a bunch of things differently now. One of his mistakes being pushing it as a product when

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@haltor

3 years

@Jason @nytimes @a16z @TaylorLorenz @pmarca @joinClubhouse 1- It was @bhorowitz who used it 2- He asked someone to explain "the r##### revolution" to everyone listening 3- It was in reference to the wall street bets / GameStop drama 4- Because that's what they call themselves on WSB subreddit 5- Nothing to see here

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@haltor

6 months

Wait for it. Do you see it?

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@haltor

3 years

Hey! Remember Realworld, the awesome app we've been working on? Well it's now called Wooorld (yes with three o's but it's pronounced World). Follow @wooorldXR and visit to sign up! Check it out in its cross-platform glory in VR / AR / MR all at once!

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@haltor

6 months

Apple Vision Pro works perfectly fine without any kind of guardian/boundary setup. Proof that Meta needs to keep lawyers out of product meetings.

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@haltor

7 months

Omnidirectional floors are the red herring of VR. They don't solve anything and instead introduce more issues. They appear to address simulation sickness in VR, caused by a sensory mismatch between your visual and vestibular systems. Let me oversimplify: in VR, when your eyes

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7 months

One step closer to the holodeck! Introducing: Holotile AR/VR walking is now possible!

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@haltor

4 years

Client: What's IPD? ME: 👇

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@haltor

6 months

Letterman freaking out over Vision Pro 😆

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@haltor

2 years

Pleased to announce that Wooorld is an official launch title for Quest Pro. Launching on Quest 2 & Quest Pro on October 25. Visit for more info & to signup for updates. Help spread the word with likes, retweets & follows: @wooorldXR #MetaConnect #QuestPro

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@haltor

6 months

We've come a long way friends. Vision Pro in a Gear VR case. And it fits like a glove.

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@haltor

4 years

@pushmatrix That's great. The passenger next to you, though:

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@haltor

6 months

Near interactions work just fine on the Apple Vision Pro. Multitouch works but only with two index fingers.

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@haltor

3 years

@alexeheath @mosseri "Oh that's just Pierre, the local surfing mime"

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@haltor

1 year

For those who worry about the lack of controllers on Apple Vision Pro: You don't need controllers for artificial movement in VR. Here is the hand tracking alternative we built for Wooorld called 'Glider'. Pull it toward wherever you want to go. Pull it further to go faster.

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@haltor

4 years

What a shame that @Google killed Tango. Video is from 2017! Real-time meshing, hole filling, object segmentation, "room emptying, refurnishing, relighting", people detection, 0.17% drift over 8km loop, drone obstacle detection... *sigh* Source:

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@haltor

4 years

You know it's gonna be a long meeting when the client looks at the Oculus Quest you brought and says: "You guys build the headsets too?"

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@haltor

3 years

VR devs, meet Mainstream. Mainstream, these are VR devs. Congrats to all for sticking around. We were right.

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@haltor

4 years

One of my favorite little things that HoloLens 2 does.

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@haltor

2 years

No one ever tells you that releasing a social VR app is a lot more like owning a bar than launching an app.

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@haltor

3 years

Finally! This should settle the debate about what the Metaverse is.

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@haltor

4 years

Kinect for Azure shenanigans

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@haltor

6 months

Apple Vision Pro is very impressive. But what Quest 3 delivers for $500 is more impressive than what AVP does for $3,500. Disclaimer: I know they are made for completely different purposes

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@haltor

3 years

People who actually know what's next are busy quietly building it. They certainly aren't on Twitter giving away that knowledge for free, one bold prediction at a time.

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@haltor

3 years

"Metaverse" is to the internet now, as "Information Superhighway" was to the internet in early 90's. A placeholder term for the next iteration of the internet that will be forgotten once the internet becomes it.

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@haltor

2 years

We have been developing Wooorld using Cambria (Quest Pro) for the better part of the year. Here are some of my impressions about the device. AMA and I'll answer what I can. 👇

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@haltor

3 years

Looks like Google is back in AR. They just posted a bunch of AR jobs (after nothing related to AR in about a year). Mostly hardware but there are some software openings as well. I like keeping an eye on these to get a sense of the industry. The hardware battle's heating up...

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@haltor

6 months

Apple Vision Pro's Personas should prioritize abstraction over realism, and stylization over fidelity. The human brain is remarkable at reconstructing faces with minimal 'suggestion'. Something like this would work much better:

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@haltor

4 years

Kinect for Azure shenanigans

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@haltor

6 months

No SoundCloud, but check out our app, Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ). It's available on the Meta Quest and coming to Apple Vision Pro soon. The whole world in your room. Explore with anyone, create AI tours, play games. That sort of thing.

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@haltor

3 years

Super impressive that Oculus Quest 2 sales are tracking so close to iPhone 3G numbers from 2008. Both 2nd gen products.

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@haltor

3 years

VR is amazing and nobody's happy. You are *inside* the computer. Stop complaining.

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@haltor

2 years

The first ever public demo of Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ) will be available next week at #MWC in Barcelona at the @Qualcomm booth (Hall 3, Booth 3E10) between February 28-March 3rd. Stop by to explore the world with us! My DM's are open if you'd like to meet @wooorldXR ♥+🙏 @Qualcomm

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@haltor

3 years

Here's a quick video of Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ) with @Oculus Passthrough recorded on an Oculus Quest. We will have a lot more to share soon. More info at Follow me and @wooorldXR and help us spread the word with likes & RTs! 🙏

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@haltor

3 years

AR VR industry has changed a lot in the last 5 years but the discourse around core concepts seems to have stayed the same somehow. Might be a sign that we are due for a new generation of VR AR makers to come out of left field and shatter the rules. And I'm looking forward to it.

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@haltor

4 years

Google should open-source Blocks instead of killing it with Poly.

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@haltor

5 years

Another sneak peek of something we've been working on @cubicVR . You've seen it in AR before. This time in #VR , running on #OculusQuest . A lot more to come soon. What would YOU like to see in a tool like this? #XR #AR #Earth #Maps #Microsoft #Oculus #Unity

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@haltor

4 years

What's the easiest way to trigger a VR dev?

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@haltor

4 years

Not enough people are aware of Seurat by Google. A tool to create super-low-poly versions (quasi-light-field) of hi-poly scenes. Shelved & open-sourced after release (!). Lots of use cases in VR/AR. I'd love to see a community revival of it. Github link:

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@haltor

6 months

⚠ PSA: Do not lift the Apple Vision Pro by its fabric facial interface. The magnets holding it in place aren't strong enough to support the device's weight. It can easily detach and fall. The glass front won't like that.

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@haltor

6 years

For those of you wondering if Google's #Daydream experimental #6dof controller dev-kits for Lenovo Mirage Solo are any good: they are REALLY good. Flawless so far since the update. Well done @GoogleARVR team!

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@haltor

6 months

Personas looking good.

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@haltor

9 months

Now, over 1 Million 360 images per week 🤯

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@haltor

1 year

Milestone: Over 10 Million 360 images like these have been viewed in Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ) since launch 🤯

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@haltor

1 year

Not many people picked up on how similar the Quest Pro form factor is to HoloLens 2. I think QP2 should definitely keep the open peripheral view and not try to copy Apple Vision Pro's face pad and strap design. The monolithic design isn't doing justice to how slim the front

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@haltor

4 years

Oddly satisfying Source: ATLAS: End-to-End 3D Scene Reconstruction from Posed Images (ECCV 2020)

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@haltor

3 years

Smart glasses are doing for AR what cardboard did for VR. It's confusing consumers and developers will have to spend years explaining to them why, even though it looks like duck & it quacks like a duck, it's not a ducking duck.

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@haltor

5 years

Messing around with @_kzr 's amazing Kinect plugin. Azure Kinect point cloud data streamed into Unity and hooked up to the VFX Graph. All in real-time. It's extra trippy to interact with yourself in VR . @unity3d @Microsoft @Azure #Kinect #Azure #VFX #VFXGraph #VR #XR

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5 years

@ID_AA_Carmack This is what peak John Carmack tweet looks like

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@haltor

4 years

This dude joining the "Building Instinctual Interactions on HoloLens 2" livestream from his actual sailboat made me question my life choices

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@haltor

4 years

I periodically check Google job posts to guess what they will kill next. Currently, there are 0 job posts for the following searches: "Augmented Reality", "Virtual Reality", "AR", "VR", "Reality" Is it too soon to assume ARCore is on the chopping block? Pretty sad if not...

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@haltor

4 years

Holy 💩. How come I haven't seen this anywhere? Lastest @Oculus Quest guardian is detecting my desk, pc, chair. Seems to detect and identify objects inside my space in 3D. Here is a quick video I took by shoving my phone into it. 🤯

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@haltor

4 years

Rant: Leading XR companies need to start treating developers as the investors that they really are. Their entire value proposition is built on the hard work of tiny indie studios who invest their hard earned cash and more importantly time into their hardware, software & services

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@haltor

2 years

The pace of progress in NeRF is absolutely insane right now. #NeRFplosion

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@haltor

5 years

Hey @ID_AA_Carmack , We should be allowed to cast from @Oculus #Quest to phone/chromecast during production. Currently only allowed for store approved apps. BIG issue when working with clients. Everyone, please vote for the feature here: #OculusQuest #VR

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@haltor

4 years

It's not even cute anymore how much ARCore has fallen behind ARKit... In typical fashion Google started Project Tango a full 3 years before ARKit was announced. Tango was quickly scrapped and replaced with ARCore after Apple's announcement.

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@haltor

3 years

@ali_heston VR is stuck in past tense AR is stuck in future tense

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@haltor

3 years

Looks like we may have to change Realworld's name. 😐🤐🙄 Let's crowd source it. Reply with your suggestion for the new name.

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@haltor

3 years

Hey folks, here's what we've been working on quietly for a while. Realworld lets you explore the world in VR. Here it is running on Oculus Quest. Sign up for updates & beta testing: . Follow me and @realworldXR and help us spread the word with likes & RTs!

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4 years

@tomwarren You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.

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1 year

Milestone: Over 10 Million 360 images like these have been viewed in Wooorld ( @wooorldXR ) since launch 🤯

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@haltor

3 years

Interesting: Facebook's decision to rebrand to Meta and phase out the Oculus branding seems to have accidentally triggered Oculus' "Kleenex moment" in the US (as in, the Oculus brand became bigger than VR for the first time)

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@haltor

3 years

TIL there's a Matterport scan of Seinfeld's apartment.

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@haltor

6 months

Guardian -in its current form- feels like a plausible deniability feature rather than an actual safety feature.

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@haltor

4 years

OK, wild idea. Reddit Place (remember?) but as a multiuser Tilt Brush festival. Instead of 1M x 1M pixels, it's 900 playspaces (30 x 30 grid), getting painted live over 24 hours. Each user picks a cell and paints for 10 minutes at a time.

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@haltor

4 years

What does VR dev mid-life crisis look like?

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4 years

@OskSta

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4 years

Townscape #7 OK, this is turning into a problem

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5 years

This *is* the intended use for Azure Kinect DK, right? @MxdRealityDev @Azure #Azure #K4a #Kinect #AzureKinect #MixedReality #AR #XR #SpatialComputing

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@haltor

1 year

We'll bring Wooorld to Apple Vision Pro. For those unfamiliar, Wooorld is an immediate social platform for the real world. Already available on Meta Quest Get it here: @wooorldXR #WWDC23 @apple

Wooorld on Meta Quest

Dive into Wooorld, an immersive social platform bringing a 3D map of the world into your room in Mixed Reality. Explore cities, landmarks, natural wonders with rich content from Wikipedia and Google...

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𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 - Now Free

@wooorldXR

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🥳 Wooorld now has 🇬🇧London🇬🇧 in glorious 3D! Try Wooorld today:

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@haltor

2 years

We've had the HTC Vive XR Elite dev kit for a bit. This thing is smol. AMA.

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@haltor

10 months

In case you were wondering, Quest 3 is slim enough to let you sip coffee comfortably. No mug bumping like with Quest 2.

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@haltor

5 years

#MRTK 2.2, new phone AR features are legit. We just tested it. Well done, @MxdRealityDev , @rschu , @julenka ! #XR , #AR , #ARCore @cubicVR

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@haltor

2 years

For me, the best part of the device is the ergonomics. Balanced great thanks to the battery in the back. The only contact points are your forehead and the back of your head. Nothing on your face, especially your cheekbones. It's way more comfortable than the Quest 2. 👇

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@haltor

4 years

Was just driving around with my 3 year old (quarantine entertainment). He asks if he can catch those buildings again. It took me a second to realize that he recognized the buildings from our 3D Earth app he tried in VR and Magic Leap. He had tried to grab the buildings.

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@haltor

4 years

If we had invented AR glasses before monitors, would this be a compelling pitch?: What if you didn't have to wear glasses all the time and all of your favorite things were waiting for you at your desk? Introducing Monitor. Your window into the digital world, when you need it.

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@haltor

2 years

What would I like improved? A flip up display would be nice but I see the added complications and issues with accidental direct sunlight exposure etc. so I'm not holding my breath Let me know if you have any questions. And make sure to check out Wooorld

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@haltor

2 years

Pleased to announce that Wooorld is an official launch title for Quest Pro. Launching on Quest 2 & Quest Pro on October 25. Visit for more info & to signup for updates. Help spread the word with likes, retweets & follows: @wooorldXR #MetaConnect #QuestPro

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@haltor

4 years

You don't need a fake cabin surrounding you at all times in VR. In fact, you don't *need* a 3D environment at all in VR.

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@haltor

2 years

The pancake lenses make it hard to go back to anything with Fresnel lenses. Much more clear. It feels like the whole viewing area is "the sweet spot". There is also a perceived increase in FOV compared to Quest 2. 👇

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@haltor

4 years

$10 says Unity *will try to* buy Normcore in 2 years.

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@normalvr

4 years

Today we're launching Normcore 2. Multiplayer for any Unity project :)

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4 years

"Almost 4K" is my new favorite spec. Imagine all the meetings they had at Oculus to debate how they should phrase it.

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7 months

@bffmike Then your vestibular system would detect a delayed backward acceleration, which is even worse than no acceleration.

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6 months

@RJdoesVR I prefer without the light seal but it should work either way

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@haltor

10 months

I present to you my FrankenQuest Pro 2. Open peripheral view and no face hugging, thank you very much. Ingredients: - 1 Quest 3 minus the facial interface - 1 Bobo VR strap for Quest 2 - 2 Super-high-tech rubber bands

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VisionOS 1.1 Beta is out. It lets you place bounded volumes much closer to yourself. “Users will now be able to reposition volumetric scenes much closer than before, which will enable easier direct interaction with the volumetric scene content.”

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@haltor

3 years

AR equivalent of "anyway here's wonderwall" is, "anyway, here's a portal"

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3 years

Google I/O has only 3 AR related events. 75 minutes total on AR over a 3 day dev conference. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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3 years

Did I mention we are hiring Unity Engineers?

Open Positions at Wooorld

Open positions at Wooorld. Join our amazing team to build an amazing product!

www.wooorld.io

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3 years

@paulg @SparklinPM Market is to small. Max 9 to 12 month runway with initial finding. Then the big milk ($COW) comes in and steals your entire customer base.

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4 years

"AR Cloud" gets thrown around a lot. In reality the likely outcome is a super fragmented field of siloed AR Clouds owned by companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Niantic, Snap etc. (some say Tesla, I'm not buying it) What incentive do they have for openness?

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@haltor

2 years

OK, it's true what they've all been saying, @tiltfive *is* awesome!

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3 years

The big race in AR revolves entirely around relocalization: Whose AR Anchor tech will be the best at figuring out their global coordinates? Hardware is the icing.

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4 years

@ID_AA_Carmack - The diminishing identity of Oculus - Facebook's responsibility in the spread of misinformation And then graphics.

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1 year

It's been fun watching some VR experts grow up to become Metaverse experts last year to then become AI experts this year. They grow up so fast.

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@haltor

3 years

We are hiring! Are you an *amazing* VR developer? Would you like to join @realworldXR ? Or does this sound like someone you know? DM me, tag them below or email careers @realworld .app. Whatever floats your boat. I'd love to chat! #XRJobs

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@haltor

3 years

Hey folks, here's what we've been working on quietly for a while. Realworld lets you explore the world in VR. Here it is running on Oculus Quest. Sign up for updates & beta testing: . Follow me and @realworldXR and help us spread the word with likes & RTs!

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What are the best VR trailer studios out there? Looking to commission some work for Wooorld.

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